Description
Book SynopsisIn this sweeping collection of essays, one of America's leading colonial historians reexamines struggles between Native peoples and Europeans in early America in terms of how each understood the material basis of power.
Trade Review"In the culmination of over three decades worth of scholarship, Daniel K. Richter offers an insightful and . . . innovative look at the history of Native and Euro-American interactions from the sixteenth to the early nineteenth centuries. For a historian who could easily rest on his laurels, Richter continues to challenge scholars of early and Native America to widen their thematic and chronological gaze, or as Richter demonstrates in this book, to recognize the history of colonial and indigenous North America as inevitably and intimately intertwined." *
Southern Historian *
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Trade, Land, Power reveals an accretion of powerful concerns that gripped Native Americans and Europeans in early America: trade, power, land, and-gradually-race and racism. With a strong eye for both broad patterns and local contingencies, Richter grounds his provocative arguments in thorough research and presents them in energetic and crystalline prose." * Gregory Dowd, University of Michigan *
Table of ContentsIntroduction
PART I. NATIVE POWER AND EUROPEAN TRADE
Chapter 1. Tsenacomoco and the Atlantic World: Stories of Goods and Power
Chapter 2. Brothers, Scoundrels, Metal-Makers: Dutch Constructions of Native American Constructions of the Dutch
Chapter 3. "That Europe be not Proud, nor America Discouraged": Native People and the Enduring Politics of Trade
Chapter 4. War and Culture: The Iroquois Experience
Chapter 5. Dutch Dominos: The Fall of New Netherland and the Reshaping of Eastern North America
Chapter 6. Brokers and Politics: Iroquois and New Yorkers
PART II. EUROPEAN POWER AND NATIVE LAND
Chapter 7. Land and Words: William Penn's Letter to the Kings of the Indians
Chapter 8. "No Savage Should Inherit": Native Peoples, Pennsylvanians, and the Origins and Legacies of the Seven Years War
Chapter 9. The Plan of 1764: Native Americans and a British Empire That Never Was
Chapter 10. Onas, the Long Knife: Pennsylvanians and Indians After Independence
Chapter 11. "Believing that Many of the Red People Suffer Much for the Want of Food": A Quaker View of Indians in the Early U.S. Republic
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments
